Download or read book The Encantadas and Other Stories written by Herman Melville and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection features 14 of Melville's short stories reprinted from Harper's and Putnam's magazines, including "The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles," a dramatic story set on the Galapagos Islands, plus "The Bell-Tower," more.
Download or read book The Duel and Other Stories written by Anton Chekhov and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six selections from the famed Russian showcase his natural aptitude for detail, dialogue, humor, and compassion. Includes "The Darling," "The Kiss," "Anna on the Neck," the title story, and more.
Download or read book Joseph Andrews written by Henry Fielding and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First English realistic novel depicts misadventures of Joseph and his old tutor, Parson Adams, and their travels — along the way exposing, through their own innocence and honesty, the hypocrisy and affectation of others.
Download or read book An Ideal Husband written by Oscar Wilde and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) created a wide range of poetry, essays, and fairy tales (and one novel) in his brief, tragic life, he is perhaps best known as a dramatist. His witty, clever drama, populated by brilliant talkers skilled in the art of riposte and paradox, are still staples of the theatrical repertoire. An Ideal Husband revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards — providing, along the way, a wry commentary on the rarity of politicians who can claim to be ethically pure. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, an overbearing father, and a formidable femme fatale continually exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the play moving at a lively pace. ike most of Wilde's plays, this scintillating drawing-room comedy is wise, well-constructed, and deeply satisfying. An instant success at its 1895 debut, the play continues to delight audiences over one hundred years later. An Ideal Husband is a must-read for Wilde fans, students of English literature, and anyone delighted by wit, urbanity, and timeless sophistication.
Download or read book Lilacs and Other Stories written by Kate Chopin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Awakening comes this collection, which features 24 distinctive tales of Southern life, filled with fascinating characters, idiosyncratic customs, and sometimes shocking details.
Download or read book The Koran written by Arthur Jeffery and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred scripture of Islam: Mohammed's revelations concerning the omniscience and majesty of God, death and judgment, the proper conduct of the faithful, previous prophets, kindness to orphans, more.
Download or read book The Secret Sharer and Other Stories written by Joseph Conrad and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three of Conrad’s most powerful stories of the sea — "Youth: A Narrative" (1898), "Typhoon" (1902) and "The Secret Sharer" (1910) — each probing deeply, suspensefully into the mysteries of human character.
Download or read book The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874 1888 written by Thomas Hardy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "See if she is dark or fair, and if you can, notice if her hands be white; if not, see if they look as though she had ever done housework, or are milker's hands like mine." So Rhoda Brook, the abandoned mistress of Farmer Lodge, is jealous to discover details of his new bride in 'The Withered Arm', the title story in this selection of Hardy's finest short stories. Hardy's first story, 'Destiny and a Blue Cloak' was written fresh from the success of Far From the Madding Crowd. Beautiful in their own right, these stories are also testing-grounds for the novels in their controversial sexual politics, their refusal of romance structures, and their elegiac pursuit of past, lost loves. Several of the stories in The Withered Arm were collected to form the famous volume, Wessex Tales (1888), the first time Hardy denoted 'Wessex' to describe his fictional world. The Withered Arm is the first of a new two-volume selection of Hardy's short stories, edited with an introduction and notes by Kristin Brady.
Download or read book Detection by Gaslight written by Douglas G. Greene and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen extraordinary Victorian and Edwardian crime stories by Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jacques Futrelle, G. K. Chesterton, and others — many never before published in book form.
Download or read book Jewish Wit and Wisdom written by Herb Galewitz and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes hilarious and frequently profound, this collection of aphorisms includes observations and remarks from statesmen, writers, artists, philosophers, jurists, musicians, and celebrities — from the prophets of the Old Testament to Woody Allen.
Download or read book Morphologies written by Sara Maitland and published by Comma Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes for a good short story? Being short, you might think the story's structure would yield an answer to this question more readily than, say, the novel. But for as long as the short story has been around, arguments have raged as to what it should and shouldn't be made up of, what it should and shouldn't do. Here ,15 leading contemporary practitioners offer structural appreciations of past masters of the form as well as their own perspectives on what the short story does so well. The best short stories don't have closure, argues one contributor, 'because life doesn't have closure'; 'plot must be written with the denouement constantly in view,' quotes another. Covering a century of writing that arguably saw all the major short forms emerge, from Hawthorne's 'Twice Told Tales' to Kafka's modernist nightmares, these essays offer new and unique inroads into classic texts, both for the literature student and aspiring writer.
Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy written by Rosemarie Morgan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy, some of the most prominent Hardy specialists working today offer an overview of Hardy scholarship and suggest new directions in Hardy studies. The contributors cover virtually every area relevant to Hardy's fiction and poetry, including philosophy, palaeontology, biography, science, film, popular culture, beliefs, gender, music, masculinity, tragedy, topography, psychology, metaphysics, illustration, bibliographical studies and contemporary response. While several collections have surveyed the Hardy landscape, no previous volume has been composed especially for scholars and advanced graduate students. This companion is specially designed to aid original research on Hardy and serve as the critical basis for Hardy studies in the new millennium. Among the features are a comprehensive bibliography that includes not only works in English but, in acknowledgment of Hardy's explosion in popularity around the world, also works in languages other than English.
Download or read book The Moonstone written by Wilkie Collins and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suspense, humor, and romance abound in this 1868 mystery, in which a gem stolen from a Hindu shrine resurfaces in an English country home — with a trio of watchful Brahmins hot on its trail.
Download or read book Selected Poems written by John Donne and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selection of 73 poems by the English metaphysical poet: "The Good Morrow," "The Canonization," "The Relic," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "To His Mistress Going to Bed," "Death Be Not Proud," more. Note.
Download or read book Nana written by Emile Zola and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French realism's immortal siren crawled from the gutter to the heights of society, devouring men and squandering fortunes along the way. Zola's 1880s classic is among the first modern novels.
Download or read book Short Stories of Thomas Hardy written by Kristin Brady and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-06-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Friendship written by Herb Galewitz and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 400 timeless observations, including "A true friend is one soul in two bodies" (Aristotle), "Friendship is like money, easier made than kept," (Samuel Butler), many more. Great browsing, reference book.
